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Exhibition Review
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 606-609
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Reviewer:
Rosser-Owen, Mariam (Rosser-Owen, Mariam)
Subjects
media:
Gold / Glassware / Metalwork / Ceramics
museums and institutions:
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, United States
styles:
Arabian / North African
subjects:
East-West trade / Merchants / Africans / Medieval / Umayyad / Fatimid
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington 8th April–29th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Detail from the Atlas of Maritime Charts (Catalan Atlas) showing Mansā Mūsā, by Abraham Cresques. 1375. Parchment. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS Espagnol 30; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Seated figure. c.1300. Copper with traces of arsenic, lead and tin, height 54 cm. (Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Abuja, Nigeria; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Western art unattributed:
5. Glazed ceramic jar inscribed ‘albaraka’ (‘blessing’), produced at Murcia or Almeria. 1150–1200. (Musée archéologique de Rabat, Morocco; photograph Moroccan- American Project, Sijilmasa, 1988; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Western art unattributed:
8. Jug with royal arms of England. English, c.1390– 99. Copper alloy, height 62.3 cm. (British Museum, London, England; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).